How to set up logging level for Spark application in IntelliJ IDEA?

Question

I\'m working on a Scala project in IntelliJ that was created through SBT. The project has Spark as one of its dependencies. I\'m still in the development phase so everything is

Answer 1

For shutting down/setting log level programmatically in spark 2.0+

Logger.getLogger("org.apache.spark").setLevel(Level.OFF);